Chris Green's new book:
' A Poppy in my Buttonhole '
Launch Date: Wed 27th August 2008
Publisher:
Rossendale Books
Now on sale
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‘A Poppy in My Buttonhole’
by
Chris Green
To be published on Wednesday 27th August 2008
Proceeds from the sale of this book will go to The Royal British Legion.
‘A Poppy in My Buttonhole’ is a collection of thoughts, ideas and poems written during my time in The Queen’s Royal Irish Hussars between 1971 and 1983. There are also poems written during the Poppy Appeal 2006.
At the back of the book is the Roll of Honour for Newark-on-Trent, for which Chris Green was the principle researcher and remains the person who researches each name for the War Memorial, which is in Newark Cemetery.
Chris is an artist, author, poet and writer and has 5 more books in the pipeline, including ‘The Fallen of Newark’ which will be in aid of The Royal British Legion in 2009.
On The Legion side he is Membership Secretary of Newark Branch and serves on the Nottinghamshire County Committee.
Chris says of himself: “I wear a powerchair and have a touch of autism and through creativity I relate my world to others. I am literally-minded and have as much tact as a flying brick.”
Chris is very active in Newark-on-Trent and is a member of the Friends of Newark Cemetery, Newark Civic Trust, Newark Allotments and Garden Society, Newark Foragers, Treasurer of Journey Art Group and the Honorary Chair of Croc-around-Britain.
Chris offers these sentiments for a happy life:
Accept people as they are and not as I want them to be;
Don’t live other peoples’ lives for them;
Try everything many times before deciding whether or not I like it.
Service Before Self
See Chris's book ' A poppy in my buttonhole on link below
http://www.rossendalebooks.co.uk/3_seebooks.htm
Visit Chris on his website:
http://www.chrisgreen.weebly.com
Chris Green's previously published booklet ' Poems in my knapsack '
The original booklet contained 16 poems, and was a limited edition of 500. Published in 1983, just after Chris left the British Army. It is sadly now out of print, but the poems will be re-published in a new volume of his poetry.
Lest we Forget / Abide with me
